{"id":1044404,"date":"2011-09-11T15:55:33","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T15:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/anatomy\/skull-%e2%80%9chobo%e2%80%9d-nickels.php"},"modified":"2024-08-17T17:12:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T21:12:43","slug":"skull-hobo-nickels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/anatomy\/skull-hobo-nickels.php","title":{"rendered":"Skull \u201cHobo\u201d Nickels"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Man, I wish we had legit coins as cool as this, but it wouldn’t be as special if it were machine made this way. These gems are a sampling of skull carved “hobo” nickels, mostly stemming from the 1930s depression era.<\/p>

The sudden scarcity of jobs in the early 1930s forced a huge number of men to hit the road. Certainly some coins were carved to fill the idle hours. More importantly, a ‘knight of the road,’ with no regular source of income, could take one of these plentiful coins and turn it into a folk art piece, which could in turn be sold or traded for small favors such as a meal or shelter for a night.<\/p><\/blockquote>

Coin carvers would cover buffalo nickels<\/a> with all kinda of folk art, faces, scenes, and skulls and have become a collectors items these days and more can be read about these rad coins here.<\/a> Also, check out some more skull coins here.<\/a><\/p>

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